Irish Slang

Irish Slang Phrases

Details: Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases; Created: 19 August 2019

Boltonian Chav slang for Lambrini, or Lambrella

Go in shop n get us a bottle of boosh please m8

Details: Parent Category: Irish Slang Phrases; Created: 19 August 2019

A mess

e.g. "aw god you went arseways about that"

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

Best Van In Ireland !!

Details: Parent Category: Munster; Created: 19 August 2019

Complaining/Moaning

Details: Parent Category: Munster; Created: 19 August 2019

You will Yeah !!

Details: Parent Category: Ulster; Created: 19 August 2019

A typically Northern Irish expression also spoken as "face as long as a Lurgan spade" meaning to look miserable or long faced. One theory about the origin of this expression is that a “Lurgan spade” was an under-paid workman digging what is now the Lurgan Park lake. Another theory is that it is a translation from the Irish language lorga spád meaning the shaft/shin of a spade. Upon observation you would say...